Alex Kimani

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• $110 Trillion Renewables Stimulus Package Could Create 50 Million Jobs

  Published 24 April 2020 | viewed 167,718 times

  As the world continues to grapple with the worst global pandemic in living memory, economists everywhere are warning that we are witnessing the unraveling of…

• Is This The End Of The World’s Largest Oil Fund?

  Published 21 April 2020 | viewed 38,539 times

  The oil markets have just gone through an epic long squeeze, with oil prices crashing into negative territory for the first time in history.  The May 2020…

• How The COVID-19 Plastic Boom Could Save The Oil Industry

  Published 19 April 2020 | viewed 69,299 times

  What happens when you give industries that are frequently ostracized for their role in environmental degradation an 'open license to pollute?' They take it with open arms.…

• Scientists Unveil Tech To Tame The AI Energy Blackhole

  Published 19 April 2020 | viewed 26,633 times

  Our ever-growing sea of connectivity powered by technologies such as Big Data, AI, 5G, and IoT has created an enormous tsunami of data that is,…

• True Energy Independence Won’t Come From Oil

  Published 16 April 2020 | viewed 19,894 times

  American energy independence was a hot topic towards the tail-end of 2019 before the global coronavirus pandemic, but the oil price war threw a monkey…

• Big Banks Set To Seize Shale Oil Assets

  Published 15 April 2020 | viewed 83,497 times

  Only weeks ago, scores of rating agencies sounded the alarm that the coronavirus credit crunch would set in motion a wave of corporate bankruptcies that would make…

• The Outdated Law Threatening U.S. ‘Energy Independence’

  Published 14 April 2020 | viewed 20,679 times

  After months of high drama and unceasing tedium, the OPEC+ group of countries, led by Saudi Arabia and Russia, finally granted President Trump his wish…

• U.S. Oil Storage To Hit Its Limit By Mid-May

  Published 12 April 2020 | viewed 68,944 times

  By many accounts, EIA crude oil forecasts appear tame compared to what other independent analysts are predicting, and the deal-no-deal that has so far come…

• Oil Price War Claims Another Victim

  Published 12 April 2020 | viewed 305,512 times

  The oil price war has already claimed its first victim. Whiting Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: WLL), once the largest oil and gas producer in North Dakota's…

• The Oil Price Crash Won’t Stop The Tesla Boom

  Published 07 April 2020 | viewed 36,112 times

  The falling price of gas has brought some relief to drivers fed up with seeing numbers whirr on the pump at wallet-draining speeds. According to the AAA,…

• Will This Be The Slowest Year Ever For Oil & Gas Mergers?

  Published 04 April 2020 | viewed 57,815 times

  When the energy sector faces a severe existential threat as it currently is after the epic oil price collapse, the usual playbook is to resort…

• The Ocean Could Be The Ultimate Renewable Energy Source

  Published 02 April 2020 | viewed 46,580 times

  For all their hype as the biggest and final frontier in clean energy production, tidal and wave power have never quite lived up to their…

• Oil Prices Hit 20-Year Lows, But These Supermajors Are Hanging On Tight

  Published 01 April 2020 | viewed 57,216 times

  Oil punters have been watching unfolding developments in the energy space with bated breath after Saudi Arabia made good on its promise to ramp up…

• The First Victims Of The Oil Price War

  Published 31 March 2020 | viewed 76,381 times

  As the oil price war and coronavirus pandemic rage on, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the energy market can remain choppy and irrational longer than…

• Why Civil Rights Activists Are Backing Natural Gas

  Published 31 March 2020 | viewed 22,604 times

  The United States has a long-running love affair with natural gas, with fossil fuels acting as the lynchpin in the country's power generation mix, while…

• Refiners Are Having To Pay To Produce Gasoline

  Published 28 March 2020 | viewed 147,490 times

  When the oil markets go into a deadly tailspin as they have right now, sooner or later, everybody in the value chain starts to feel…

• The Oil Price War Won’t Dethrone The Dollar

  Published 26 March 2020 | viewed 54,087 times

  With the oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia showing no signs of relenting, some analysts are now warning that the standoff could extend much…

• A Wave Of Downgrades Has Hit The U.S. Oil Patch

  Published 26 March 2020 | viewed 22,102 times

  The riskier end of the energy bond market has lately suffered a sharp blow in response to an epic oil price crash as the coronavirus…

• Prepare For The Next Wave Of Oil Bankruptcies

  Published 24 March 2020 | viewed 62,553 times

  Last year, the energy industry was rocked by record bankruptcies and write-downs that did not spare even the oil majors. According to Energy and Restructuring…

• Here’s Why Big Oil Stocks Are Rallying

  Published 24 March 2020 | viewed 63,935 times

  Under normal circumstances, a company's management suspending a share buyback program is construed to mean that it lacks confidence in the future or thinks the…